Shilin Sanqi Hotel

The hotel is located by the famous stone forest – Yunnan Shilin World Geological Park. The concept is integrate the hotel into the landscape to minimise the influence on the Park. The three stories hotel has 55 rooms, covered with green roof, where allows daylight and solar radiation to penetrate deeply into the building. The aim of this feature is that the building receives natural sunlight throughout the year. The courtyards also create chimney effects, which allow naturally and passively ventilate the building premises in summer. Completed by rainwater harvesting, both natural and controlled ventilation, the building will achieve LEED gold certification.

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About WAX

WAX Architects is a research based architecture firm in Munich and Beijing, found by Nikolaus Wabnitz and Feng Xu, operating in different fields of architecture, art, education and diffusion, engaging the field of architecture via encoded and explicit processes. WAX’s work is trying to investigate and reflect the problems of social-economy and ecology in the process of the rapid urbanization around world.